The Wal-Mart Phenomenon Michael Hancock SOC200: Introduction to Sociology Gary Mayhew September 18‚ 2005 The Wal-Mart Phenomenon At Wal-Mart‚ "everyday low prices" is the motto. This slogan has helped create the largest business in world history with over $245 billion in revenues. It is actually three times the size of the No. 2 retailer in the world‚ France’s Carrefour. Nearly 138 million shoppers visit one of the 4‚750 Wal-Mart retail stores in the United States each week. This trade giant
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adopted a corporate level strategy of concentrating on a single business unit‚ but this is only half the picture. For IBM there is not one general type of corporate strategy that best suits their needs‚ but a combination of both a concentration on a single business strategy as well as a vertical integration strategy. A single business unit strategy means that IBM is concentrating on competing successfully within the confines of a single business unit. An advantage of choosing such a strategy is that
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CORPORATE LEVEL STRATEGY OF APPLE COMPUTER INC. Low level of diversification (1976-1996) To examine what strategies have been used by Apple‚ we divided the period into two ages. The first age is in between 1976 until 1996 were we can observe that all the products sold by Apple were computer related. They started with Apple 1 and continuously developed their products up until the evolutionary of Macintosh. However‚ their development restrained only to computers‚ chips and software which indicates
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sales have made up over 24.7 percent of the company’s total sales. This is expected to increase substantially over the next decade. (International business 13th edit‚ pg. 251) Why has Walmart viewed international expansion as a critical part of its strategy? They feel this way because they are realizing that they are facing limitations to its growth here in the states. They realized the need to look for other opportunities elsewhere. As a world leader‚ they felt the obligation to go international. Walmart
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Organizational Behavior Evaluation – Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. The open systems theory and resource dependence theory state that organizations maintain fluid and changing relationships with organizations in their environment (Scott‚ 2003). A complex environment could substantially affect the functioning and potential survival of the organization. Managers must address all conflict and uncertainty in which should come as no surprise that complexity is also a defining feature of life in organization
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Wal-Mart: Staying on Top of the Fortune 500 I. Background Last year‚ Wal-Mart had revenues of $191 billion. Wal-Mart ’s 2002 sales topped $218 billion‚ with sales growth at 13.8 %. Its 2002 net income was $ 6.7 billion‚ a growth of 6 %. Wal-Mart has 1‚283‚000 employees‚ as of 2002; a growth of 11.2 % (www.fortune.com). Wal-Mart is the largest retail store in the United States‚ and is larger than any other retail chain in the world. Currently Wal-Mart operates over 4‚150 retail facilities
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Wal-Mart: Strategic Management An in depth analysis of Wal-Mart and its global strategic management and electronic distribution Analysis for Business Policy: Strategic Management. Instructor: Dr. M. Reitzel‚ DeVry University‚ February 2007‚ Austin‚ TX. Members of the Team: Marcus Bedford Jon Cable Wayne Oulicky Constince Sanchez Table of Contents: Executive Summary.……………………………………………………………….2 Problem Statement ………………………………………………………………...2 Situational Description and Strategic Analyses …………………………………
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Wal-Mart’s Strategic Value Creation Darien O’Neal Brandman University Business & Professional Studies Business Process Analysis and Innovation BUSU 630 Professor Helen Eckmann April 27th 2013 Statement of the Case Facts The key facts in this case analysis are analyzing Wal-Mart’s weaknesses according to Shahzad Trading & Consulting FZE SWOT & TOWS statements conducted on Wal-Mart and arguing against their theory of Wal-Mart’s Business Strategy. In stating the problem or opportunity
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history of Wal-Mart and it will glance at the management style and Ethics of Wal-Mart towards it internal and external customers. Wal-Mart Ethical and Management Style Wal-Mart is not only the largest retail company but it is the largest company in the world. It is bigger than Home Depot‚ Target‚ Costco‚ Kroger‚ Sears and Kmart combined. The only competitor that might be considered to be Wal-Mart biggest and closest rival is Target‚ but it is still small in comparison. Wal-Mart succeeded
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